Healthcare Reform: Solving the Medical Student Debt Crisis Through Human … – Huffington Post (blog)

Healthcare Reform: Solving the Medical Student Debt Crisis Through Human ...
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The perception of medical school debt encourages students to choose careers as highly paid specialists over less compensated primary care practitioners. And who can blame them? The current insurance reimbursement scheme incentivizes specialists with ...
Producing More Primary-Care DoctorsNew York Times (blog)

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RIVERSIDE: No immediate movement on medical school expected – Press-Enterprise


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RIVERSIDE: No immediate movement on medical school expected
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UC Riverside's medical school remained in limbo on Friday, facing a possible year's delay in its planned startup. The school was due to open in 2012. Chancellor Timothy White continued to lobby state legislators for an annual ...
Cooper Medical School wins initial accreditation | Philadelphia Inquirer ...Philadelphia Inquirer
NJ's new medical school at Rowan University to begin recruiting studentsThe Star-Ledger - NJ.com
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University receives preliminary accreditationNJ.com
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Temple med school to open Pittsburgh campus – Philadelphia Inquirer


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Temple med school to open Pittsburgh campus
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Temple's first class of 30 students at its other satellite medical school campus, in Bethlehem, will begin studies in August. Larry Kaiser, dean of Temple's medical school, said doctors are more likely to begin practicing in the places where they train ...
Allegheny General to open medical school campusPittsburgh Post Gazette
West Penn Allegheny, Temple University to start new medical school in PittsburghTribune Review
New medical school coming to PittsburghBeaver County Times
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Why Medical School Should Be Free – New York Times


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Why Medical School Should Be Free
New York Times
Why, then, are we proposing to make medical school free? Huge medical school debts — doctors now graduate owing more than $155000 on average, and 86 percent have some debt — are why so many doctors shun primary care in favor of highly paid ...
Cowboys and Pit CrewsNew Yorker (blog)
Research Roundup: Medicaid Co-Payments, Access To Docs Causes Worse HealthKaiser Health News

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Several injured in vehicle-school bus accident – Clearfield Progress


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Several injured in vehicle-school bus accident
Clearfield Progress
SABULA - Two people were flown to a trauma center via medical helicopter and six others were injured in the aftermath of a three-vehicle crash involving a car, a pickup truck and a school bus that occurred yesterday at 8:15 am on state Route 255, ...
At Least 8 Injured In Clearfield Co. School Bus CrashWJAC Johnstown
Motorist airlifted from scene after crash with loaded school bus in western Pa.The Republic

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UMass Medical School helps state get A grade in dental services for children – Dentistry IQ

UMass Medical School helps state get A grade in dental services for children
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WORCESTER, Massachusetts--Massachusetts' Medicaid program, MassHealth, has made improvements in children's dental health services with the help of the University of Massachusetts Medical School in just one year. To read more about the Pew report, ...

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Wake Forest medical school names UAB’s Abraham new dean – MedCity News

Wake Forest medical school names UAB's Abraham new dean
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Wake Forest University's new medical school dean will come from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Edward Abraham, chair of the department of medicine at UAB, takes his new post in Winston-Salem, North Carolina effective Aug. 1. ...
Wake Forest Baptist names medical school deanWinston-Salem Journal
Abraham named Wake Forest med school deanTriad Business Journal

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Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School exceeds enrolment target – Channel News Asia


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Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School exceeds enrolment target
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But within four years of its operations, the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School has exceeded that target, with 56 students expected to graduate from the class in 2013. The school's Dean, Professor Ranga Krishnan, says it will stay at this annual ...
Duke-NUS' pioneer students get their hoodsStraits Times

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Let’s rethink decision on UConn med school – Hartford Business

Let's rethink decision on UConn med school
Hartford Business
Another is what to do with the UConn medical school and the research facilities. When faced with a construction opportunity, why not take advantage of a siting option that will pay dividends in synergies from other like investments? ...
Construction workers turn out to back UConn Health Center planThe Connecticut Mirror

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Stanford sanctions medical school faculty – AHN | All Headline News


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Stanford sanctions medical school faculty
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Stanford University has sanctioned members of its medical school faculty for accepting paid promotional speaking engagements in violation of campus rules. According to Pro Publica, five faculty members have been sanctioned for violating a ...
Stanford medical faculty members disciplined by schoolSan Jose Mercury News
5 Faculty Members At Stanford Medical School DisciplinedKaiser Health News
Stanford doctors censured for giving drug pitchesSan Francisco Chronicle
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
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